It’s been one year since I started learning English with Elsa app. I study English alone at home and use it every day. I struggled with pronouncing even one syllable words before , but my hard work paid off . My English pronunciation has improved a lot! Furthermore, I can watch English TV shows without subtitles and read books in English now. I want to keep practicing pronunciation to get better. I’m so grateful to you for letting me know about the app. I can’t thank you enough.
Your videos are so inspiring and helpful for improving my English with Japanese accents. They also reminded me of my school days. Stanford Univ. was a place I often visited while I studied at San Jose State University and earned a Master’s degree in Linguistics and TESOL. One of the reasons I went to Stanford was to assist a project of Japanese language related, for my professor teaching at both campuses. My favorite was Phonetics btw. I love your dog and the conversation with the lady of the Starbucks. Cooking is also something I have to do home during the pandemic. My English vocabulary is limited to what I learned at the school. Much appreciated, therefore, if you could keep making that kind of videos. I live in New Jersey now, originally from Nagano, but many small things I don’t know about American culture sometimes bother me. That’s why I was so glad and inspired by your talk about what Naomi Osaka tweeted.
Summer sensei, thank you for the great lesson! I really liked the live stream today. The most difficult word for me to pronounce was “ugly”. Unexpectedly, “sorry” was not easy, either. I did not think those two words were the most difficult ones….Pronunciation is quite tough for the old people who started to learn in their adulthood! Thank you always for inspiring us. i hope you have a good sleep with Winter chan!
Thank you summer sensei. I really enjoyed your video. It’s good for me to learn English. And I also tried the pronunciations. The most difficult to pronounce word for me is world 😭 And the easy pronounce words are sorry and hello.😀 I thought that the pronunciation practice in the vocabulary book of this mobile app was very well made!
Hi, Ms. Rane! 🖐 Thanks for very helpful English lessons as usual.👍 I've never heard what the difference of the English pronunciations ever. So, I'm looking forward to take your lectures even more!! ✌ BTW, best wishes for good luck in your success life!! 🌹🤞 Have a nice day, Ms!🖐
Hurt was the most difficult to pronounce.The “ur” was really difficult. I failed so many times! This was my first time to use this app, and i found it very useful. I didn’t even know that my current pronunciation is considerably incorrect before this.
Hi, summer. Thank you for yesterday's live.I was surprised that there were so many participants.Even if I leave comments, it's through. lol But it was fun to hear a healthy voice.I'm looking forward to another chance.see u!!
Hi my name is Chika.Nice to meet you. Thank you so much for always making nice video . I really love to watch all videos 🥰 I am really curious about what is the different between Warm regard and Best regards. I am glad if you answer my question I appreciate you. Hope you have a great day 🙏😊😊
Hello Summer, I came across your videos and find them very interesting! Your Japanese speaking skill is impressive - way better than mine. I'm Japanese-Canadian and my parents spoke both English and Japanese at home. I can understand basic conversational Japanese, but find it hard to speak the language. Watching and listening to your videos is helpful to me. Would you ever consider doing a future video(s) to help those wanting to improve their Japanese conversational skills (and English is their first-language)? In any case, I enjoy your vlog style videos! Thanks so much!!
thank you for the live streaming! was really interesting! I downloaded the aplication on my iphone and tried a test for first-time users and now your vocabulary list. the most difficult I found in the list was "girlfriend" (86%), "l" sound. and the easiests were earth(99%) and hurt(99%). I would like to learn harder with this app from now on. so please gimme a free tix! am very looking fwd to your next video soon!
Summer sensei, your Japanese is perfect! It's really awesome for me that non native speakers of Japanese can speak Japanese fluently for these days. I think young Japanese people are becoming able to speak English as well. In a sense internet technology provides useful audio & visual materials according to abundant needs of target language learners, I guess. Is the second language teaching methodology efficiently developing in this field day by day?
I missed the live-stream, but I enjoyed watching this video a lot! The most difficult word to pronounce for me is "learn" (which I think is not in the videos), especially that it needs to pronounce "L" and "ear" and "n" in order, which I find super difficult. If I choose the ones among the archives, then those will be "water" and "world". But I can definitely say that you are the best teacher when it comes to how to teach this pronunciation of "er" by narrowing your mouth. By practicing with the videos, you can actually feel your pronunciation has improved in practice. The easy pronunciation for me is "th" sound, such as "think" or "bath". It would be great if you could pick up the pronunciation of "Learn" in the future lesson!
I spent 27 years living in 5 countries across Asia. from Kyoto down to Singapore. I learned to enunciate clearly out of necessity (and to avoid the many idioms that make English such a rich language) - It's only fair! When I lived in Kyoto I got to teach English conversation to 4 people in exchange for Japanese conversation coaching. It is so enjoyable. One day I was cycling on the pavement (sidewalk to you) and a couple and their teenage daughter flagged me down ! So to speak! They wanted their daughter to engage me in conversation and practice her English - as she was heading off to UNI in UK in a few months time! Could I...?? OF COURSE! And so we did. Chatting away in the adjacent combini carpark. It was such a perfect moment. Smiles and gratitude all round at the end when I begged my leave. Ichi Go Ichi E !
I like music whatever. Before the live stream of Mr. Summer, I was listening to Japanese singer Kaori Kozai's "Dancing Her All Night". Do you know this song? It was a song with her dance.
By the way, about Natto : p For people that are not eager to have Natto, it goes very well with Avocadoes or Tomatoes. If you have chance please try to have Natto this way, I have 2 ways of suggestion how to have Natto. 1. Cut an avocado in half, take the seed out, put some Natto (mixed with the soy sauce & mustard) in the hole, dig & eat with a spoon. 2. Cut an avocado in small pieces (peal the skin, take the seed out), also cut a tomato in small pieces, put those avocado pieces & tomato pieces in a salad bowl, and then add Natto (mixed with the soy sauce & mustard come with) on the top. It will taste great when you chew all those 3 ingredients together, it will taste differently than when you chew Natto only in your mouth. You sure still smell the Natto though, avocado & tomato do an excellent work. : D I like adding ポン酢 with some wasabi on it, wasabi masks the smell. Actually not all us Japanese people love the smell, either. But we don't mind the smell at all when we have, maybe it is the same as durian ? : p It is said that Natto dissolves clots in your blood vessel, so it's very good for your health. As long as you live in CA, Good Luck ! : D
I drive a Nissan will be living in he Bay Area working for Stanford from next week I love watching your vids cuz I love to learn and get better even after 20+ years of living here I’m always gonna have my accent but there’s always a room for an improvement and some ppl love my accent ((;
@@SummerSensei true! Luckily most people seem to understand what I say even when I speak unclearly or mumble like “did you get what I said?!” Anyways I think I learn by listening to other ppl well for instance I learn ppls names by hearing other ppl say them when I hear other ppl saying some words “oh that’s how you say it!” And I’ll imitate the next time I use it etc. it’s cool some ppl are interested in where I come from and vise versa I don’t think I could ever go back to Japan and live there but still think it’s a cool place to visit ((:
Hi, Thank you so much for your live streaming. I really enjoyed the communication with you. I scored over 80% within a few challenges except "world" which is most difficult pronunciation for me. Then, I checked out your video again and tried it again and again. Finally, I just got 63%... Not excellent...;-(
I'm happy to announce that you won a one-year membership for ELSA Speak! Could you please send me your email address, and I will send you the information? (I will delete your comment with the email address to protect your privacy after you send it. Nobody will see it but me, so don't worry.) Thank you again for participating!
I didn't know, but it seems if you write your email in the comments, RU-vid automatically deletes the comment, so if you sent it, I couldn't see your email address. Could you please reply to this comment and then send me an email on my website www.summer-sensei.com to receive your membership? Sorry for the confusion!
When you came over to Japan, What kind of things did you want to support by Japanese friends? One of my English teachers will come over Japan this July after taking student visa, so I would like to support him.
The most difficult word: little (i) The easiest word: girl Other difficult words: earth (ear), probably (2nd b) I sound in little was difficult to get it right for me. I have tried maybe 20 times and only a few times I've gotten over 94% , and other times are mix between 40% and 80%, mostly lower than 70%. I couldn't even tell the difference of my 40% pronunciation and 98% one.
I got like from サマー先生 but when I corrected my original comment (because I found some mistakes), the like was reset and it disappeared :( I hope it won't affect to the lottery :(
@travelko Y I'm happy to announce that you won a one-year membership for ELSA Speak! Could you please send me your email address, and I will send you the information? (I will delete your comment with the address to protect your privacy after you send it. Nobody will see it but me, so don't worry.) Thank you again for participating!
Oops, I'm sorry, I didn't see your first response, so I reposted my comment, and it deleted the commented with your email address, so I didn't get it. Could you send it one more time? I'll tell you if I receive it. Thanks again!
